From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Police Review 2/2/01
>Article 1
>
>ACPO could lose independence over lack of funds, says president
>By Tina Orr-Munro
--big snip--
Steve, & Charles,
Maybe someone should suggest that seeing as how the
ACPO is an 'association', that it ought -- like other associations --
seek its funding from the members it is supposed to represent,
and not rely on whatever teat of government happens to be handy.
Talk about being dependent of action . . .
To rely on that noun, in the private sense, as one would to
the private member club that requires participation and dues paying,
then it seems to me that the term has been misappropriated to reflect
a valid society, when it fact it is nothing of the sort.
And, more importantly, it should have no input to
any organ of government, except as is normally availed to by any
other private entity. All of which is to say that its input would not
be accepted above that of the individual citizens.
Further, for it to make rules that are in essence subsumed
into law, is the height of what can essentially be called an incestuous
relationship -- if not outright nepotism of the government family of
organizations, public and private.
Either you are a private organization, or you are a front
organization for the Home Office.
Talk about thinly veiled toadies . . .
If the veil gets any thinner, the naughty bits will show
--
I wish they were a front organisation for the Home Office, I think
it's the other way around though, certainly as far as guns are
concerned.
They do need to change their name though, how an organisation that
is 98% funded by the taxpayer can portray itself as an "association"
is stretching it.
Read this:
"Prohibition of handguns has been considered. Although some Chief
Officers would support total prohibition of handguns, this is not
felt to be practical. Target shooting using handguns has been
legitimised through sport, up to, and including, Olympic level.
Therefore, a blanket prohibition of handguns would unfairly impact
upon members of society taking part in lawful sporting activities."
- A T Burden, Chief Constable Gwent Constabulary, Chairman, ACPO
Sub-Group on the Administration of Firearms, April 1996.
And now they want to ban long-barrelled revolvers!
What a joke. Talk about hypocrisy. The cynic in me tells me
that they are too worried about their funding to be taken
seriously, either that or they have been progressively taken
over by anti-gun bigots.
Steve.
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